Re: [rtl] RTLinux 2.0 tutorial/manual/documentation ?

[John Storrs <lme@storrs.demon.co.uk>]

Bart

You cannot measure an event to a precision of even 1 microsecond
using a parallel port on a PC running real time Linux. The hardware-related
jitter will be at least an order of magnitude higher than this. If you are
really looking for nanosecond precision, you can resolve around 10 ns
using a PLD-based peripheral like the one I'm developing. 

John

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
> I am an electronical engineering student, and for my thesis I think of
> using RTLinux 2.0.  My problem is the following:
> 
> I have a certain pulse that is being attached to the parallel port.  The
> lenght of the pulse is +/- 100ms
> I want to be able to get a value that is representing the length
> (duration in time) of the pulse, and it has to be quite accurate, let's
> say i have to be able to measure with an accuracy of 0.001 micro sec. 
> To solve this, already lots of people have pointed me to RTLinux, and
> today, I downloaded RTLinux 2.0 and got to install it on my system:

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